First, since abiword and OOo both work across many platforms,
this isn't a FreeBSD question, but humor me anyway.
A [long] while ago I checked on the OOOForums list and got the
howto's of changing "this into ``this'' in openoffice. [[And
'this into `this': it's a two-fer]]. Has anybody tried this
with abiword?? Clues, tips please? (Figure I'll ask here
first.)
My ascii-to-markup program does the same thing, but only for
double-quotes since the fact that the zillions of contractions
like can't, would've, and informal english like "So: howzit
hangin'?" gave me *many* second thoughts.
1) Does anybody onlist have any idea howto turn 'this' into
&lsquo' ? In the HTML ampersand chars list, that's what it
is called. Using the ampersand and ints it is "⁞" --
minus the quotes, of course.
2) Iwould like some clues howto automate this either via
abiword OR algorithm. It took some large N days back in
1994 when I first hacked atom to realize that I would have
to use recursion to get the left|beginning and right|closing
double quotes.
3) Or should I give up and do this by eyeball?!
tia,
gary
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